On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Has there been any change to the server hardware with respect to number of > drives since ZFS has come out? Many of the servers around still have an even > number of drives (2, 4) etc. and it seems far from optimal from a ZFS > standpoint. All you can do is make one or two mirrors, or a 3 way mirror and > a spare, right? Wouldn't it make sense to ship with an odd number of drives > so you could at least RAIDZ? Or stop making provision for anything except 1 > or two drives or no drives at all and require CD or netbooting and just > expect everybody to be using NAS boxes? I am just a home server user, what > do you guys who work on commercial accounts think? How are people using > these servers?
I see 2 disks for boot and usually one or more 24-disk JBODs. A few 12-disk JBODs are still being sold, but I rarely see a single 12-disk JBOD. I'm also seeing a few SBBs that have 16 disks and boot from SATA DOMs. Anyone else? -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
